You have been notified – do not take the call.
Republished on June 7 with new warnings and more details on potential threats.
The FBI warns users of smartphones this week to be vigilant of the national attacks that scare citizens in sending money. There is a bad touch to this scam, and that is where the police are particularly eager to prevent Americans from becoming victims.
“The crooks usurp the FBI telephone numbers on a national scale”, ” The office says“The usurpation of government agents. The victims are led to think that an arrest is imminent unless it sends money. ”
If you receive such a call, The advice is simple and clear: “The FBI will never call you to demand money to get out of the criminal accusations. It is a scam. Hang up and visit the FBI IC3 to submit a report.”
The FBI is not the only one to be usurped in this way – it has become a powerful attack methodology and it is done quickly. Last week, I warned that several police forces in several states had issued the same warnings. “”
New York State police told its citizens that “a scam of the usurpation of the telephone” is now “usurped the usurpation of members of the application of laws or government agencies to try to request sensitive personal information from individuals in New York State and beyond.” These crooks “demand personal information such as social security numbers and have threatened punitive measures against beneficiaries who refuse to comply”.
Whether it is federal, state or local police, the advice is exactly the same. Do not take the calls. As soon as you hear the initial field of the crook, hang up and submit a report, either with your local police, or with the FBI national IC3 service.
As with the FBI, New York State police warn that the attacks on legitimate telephone numbers “to ensure that calls come from trusted agencies. These scams are designed to create confusion and fear, which has led to victims to comply with requests or to share information that can be used to commit additional fraud.”
Although scams in the application of the law continue to invite warnings from various cities and states, the threat is now expanding its net with multiple warnings while we are heading for the weekend. Attacks now include imitating crooks Bank investigators,, Fire services charity collections And even Jury calls This tells citizens that they have to pay given not to appear, to avoid more serious consequences.
Office advice, however, remain unchanged. “There are many versions of the identification scam, and they all use intimidation tactics. As a rule, crooks will use an urgent and aggressive tone, refusing to speak or leave a message to someone other than their targeted victim; And urges the victims not to tell anyone else, including family, friends or financial institutions, which happens. ”
The requests of the crooks could be in various forms: “prepaid cards, cable transfers and species, sent by mail or inserted into automatic distributors of cryptocurrency tickets”, even by putting money or other valuables “to a letter that arrives at their home”.
You have been notified – this scam is nasty and preveses out to natural fears. Don’t be afraid to hang up the phone. If you have any doubts, recall your local police forces using a number accessible to the public. But all the organizations responsible for the application of laws emphasize that they never make such threats by phone or SMS – it is a scam each time.
